Working for Social Justice through the Junior Youth Empowerment Program

Wednesday, November 14, 2012

Working for Social Justice through the Junior Youth Empowerment Program

Interested in working with pre-teens and contributing towards a better community in Pasadena?

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3:00 AM

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Come to a short info session and learn how we can engage junior youth in programs that seek to enhance their moral and intellectual capacities while motivating them to participate in the betterment of their communities!

Wednesday, November 14, 2012

CALPIRG Info Session and On-Campus Interviews

CALPIRG is a consumer group that stands up to powerful interests whenever they threaten our health and safety, our financial security or our right to fully participate in our democratic society.

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9:00 PM - 10:00 PM

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They're joining us on campus for an info-session on November 14th and will be recruiting for their full-time Campus Organizer opportunity on the 15th. Apply to their position on TIGERlink (job #7030) for the chance to interview.

Thursday, November 15, 2012

Curve Fitting!

Gordon Belot

Professor of Philosophy

University of Michigan

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Time:
1:30 AM - 3:15 AM

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Some philosophers maintain that rational disagreement is impossible: that two people faced with exactly the same evidence should have exactly the same beliefs. We will consider some arguments that have been given in support of this view These are variations on the following thought: if there can be different rational responses to the same body of evidence, then two jurors could reach opposite views about the guilt of a defendant without either being irrational---but then why should I vote to find the defendant guilty if I recognize that it would also be rational to find the defendant innocent?

We will also consider an objection to this approach. If there is a unique rational response to each body of evidence, then there must exist an optimal inductive method. But one can show that there can be no optimal methods for certain problems that provide idealized models of scientific inquiry. Finally, we will evaluate the damage done by this objection.

Thursday, November 15, 2012

"Paul Goodman Changed My Life" Film Showing

Paul Goodman was once so ubiquitous in the American zeitgeist that he merited a cameo in Woody Allen’s Annie Hall. Author of legendary bestseller Growing Up Absurd (1960), Goodman was also a poet, 1940s out queer (and family man), pacifist, visionary, co-founder of Gestalt therapy—and a moral compass for many in the burgeoning counterculture of the ’60s.

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3:30 AM

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Paul Goodman Changed My Life immerses you in an era of high intellect (that heady, cocktail-glass juncture that Mad Men has so effectively exploited) when New York was peaking culturally and artistically; when ideas, and the people who propounded them, seemed to punch in at a higher weight class than they do now. Using a treasure trove of archival multimedia—selections from Goodman’s poetry (read by Garrison Keillor and Edmund White); quotes from Susan Sontag, Martin Luther King, Jr. and Noam Chomsky; plentiful footage of Goodman himself; plus interviews with his family, peers and activists—director/producer Jonathan Lee and producer/editor Kimberly Reed (Prodigal Sons) have woven together a rich portrait of an intellectual heavyweight whose ideas are long overdue for rediscovery.

“Paul Goodman was not ahead of his time but IN his time.”–Grace Paley

“There has not been such a convincing, genuine, singular voice in our language since D. H. Lawrence.Paul Goodman’s voice touched everything he wrote about with intensity, interest, and his own terribly appealing sureness and awkwardness.”–Susan Sontag